Rationalism, Pluralism, and Freedom

Jacob T. Levy, Tomlinson Professor of Political Theory, McGill University

Jacob T. Levy is Tomlinson Professor of Political Theory and coordinator of the Research Group on Constitutional Studies at McGill University, and a member of the Montreal Groupe de Recherche Interuniversitaire en Philosophie Politique.

Part 1
1. Freedom, Associations, and Uniformity
2. Two Approaches
3. Reunderstanding Intermediate Groups
Part 2
4. Antecedents and Foundations
5. The Ancient Constitution, the Social Contract, and the Modern State
6. Montesquieu and Voltaire, Philosophes and Parlements
7. The Age of Revolutions
8. Centralization in a Democratic Age: Tocqueville and Mill
9. From Liberal Constitutionalism to Pluralism
Part 3
10. The Constitution of Group Life
11. Associations are not states
Conclusion: Against Synthesis
Conclusion: Against Synthesis